The word authority often leaves a bad taste in people's mouths because where there is authority,

there is submission, and submission is frowned upon as servile. These thoughts have been translated

into modern day parenting advice, discouraging parents from exercising their parental authority.

Today I'm sharing truth about the parents' biblical authority to raise up their children

in the knowledge of the Lord and the blessings and freedoms it gives to them, plus share a few

practical house rule tips. Welcome to the Sheproos' faithful podcast, episode number 247, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hi, everyone, welcome to the podcast. My name is Lauren, and I'm so glad you're here. Today is special because you're going to kind of get a double intro.

I'm introing now to the podcast, but then I had recorded earlier on my earphones because just we can't coordinate sleep in our house these days.

We're just, you know, there's a lot of people now and who just have various

opinions about sleeping at the moment. And so I, you'll, you'll get to it. It's beautiful. It's

wonderful. But that's why you're getting a double intro today. Before I get started,

thank you so much to my Patreon supporters who support this podcast. I'm so

grateful for you. Second, I want to give you a quick life hack. I was thinking this is about children

today. So here is my parenting life hack for crafts. Do your children love to craft? Are they always making things out of paper, yarn? I don't know,

just have ongoing projects. We had clay beads the other day. I mean, we were just rolling,

literally, and clay beads everywhere. And a lot of times these projects can't, there's not enough

time from start to finish for them. So they just kind of lay around. Or you finish a project, but there's not enough time from start to finish for them.

So they just kind of lay around.

Or you finish a project, but there's not really a way to display it yet.

Or maybe you don't want to, but you just made it.

And what do you do to like turn around and throw it in the trash?

So here's what I do.

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